David Carol

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David Jeffrey Carol (born August 23, 1958) is the editor-in-chief of Peanut Press, which he co-founded with Ashly Stohl, and the author of a number of photography books.{{cite web | url=http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2015/11/09/article/159876650/david-j-carol-interview-with-elizabeth-avedon/ | title=David J. Carol Interview With Elizabeth Avedon | date=November 9, 2015 | accessdate=June 18, 2016 | author=Avedon, Elizabeth | publisher=L'Oeil de la Photographie}} He is the former Director of Photography at Outfront Media and was a contributing editor and writer for Photo District News' Emerging Photographer series.{{cite web | url=http://www.pdnonline.com/emergingphotographer/Emerging-Photographe-6066.shtml | title=Emerging Photographer Welcomes David J. Carol | date=June 27, 2012 | accessdate=October 8, 2013 | author=Carol, David | publisher=Photo District News | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808181612/http://www.pdnonline.com/emergingphotographer/Emerging-Photographe-6066.shtml | archive-date=August 8, 2016 | url-status=dead }} He was also a writer at Rangefinder Magazine, authoring a column entitled "Photo Finish."{{cite journal | url=http://www.rangefinderonline.com/features/profiles/Photo-Finish-Paris--6079.shtml | title=Photo Finish: Paris Visone's Personal Vision | date=February 1, 2012 | accessdate=April 9, 2012 | author=Carol, David | journal=Rangefinder | publisher=Nielsen Business Media | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817035618/http://www.rangefinderonline.com/features/profiles/Photo-Finish-Paris--6079.shtml | archive-date=August 17, 2016 | url-status=dead }}

Biography

Carol grew up in Jericho, New York and later attended the School of Visual Arts and The New School for Social Research where he studied under Lisette Model.{{cite web | url=http://www.davidcarol.com/Bio.html | title=Biography | author=David J. Carol | accessdate=April 9, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307080004/http://www.davidcarol.com/Bio.html | archive-date=March 7, 2008 | url-status=dead }}

Carol's first book, 40 Miles of Bad Road... (2004), a collection of photographs from 1993 to 2003, and second book, All My Lies are True... (2009), were each selected as "Best Book of the Year" by Photo District News.{{cite web |url= http://melaniephotoblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/short-interview-with-photographer-and.html |title= A Short Interview with Photographer and Self-Publisher David Carol |work= Melanie Photo Blog |date= August 8, 2010 |accessdate= April 9, 2012 |author= McWhorter, Melanie}} His third 'book', "This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things!" (2011), was in fact a collection of photographs stored inside a lucite box, a contraption which Carol calls a "non-book."{{cite journal |url= http://www.rangefinderonline.com/features/fine-art/This-is-Why-We-Cant-4570.shtml |title= This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things |author= Rippel, Christy |journal= Rangefinder |date= October 1, 2011 | accessdate= April 9, 2012 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media}} His fourth book, No Plan B (2016), was a retrospective of 32 black-and-white photographs published in conjunction with his 2017 exhibition at the Leica Gallery in SoHo.{{cite web |url= http://lenscratch.com/2016/11/david-carol-no-plan-b/ |title= David J. Carol: No Plan B |author= Smithson, Aline |work= Lenscratch |date= November 15, 2016 |accessdate= May 30, 2017}}

Books

  • 40 Miles of Bad Road... Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2004. Edited by Abby Robinson, with an afterword by Anne Wilkes Tucker.
  • All My Lies are True...{{Cite web|url=https://photobookjournal.com/2010/02/26/david-carol-all-my-lies-are-true/|title=David Carol – All My Lies Are True|date=February 26, 2010|website=PhotoBook Journal|language=en|access-date=October 7, 2019}} Kabloona, 2009.
  • This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things!. Kabloona, 2011. With an essay by Jodi Peckman. Edition of 251.
  • Where's the Monkey?. Café Royal, Southport, England: 2013. Edition of 250.
  • Here's The Deal. Café Royal, Southport, England: 2014. Edition of 150.
  • All My Pictures Look The Same. Café Royal, Southport, England: 2014. Edition of 250.
  • No Plan B. Peanut Press, Los Angeles, CA:{{Cite web|url=https://photobookjournal.com/2017/01/13/david-carol-no-plan-b/|title=David Carol – No Plan B|date=January 13, 2017|website=PhotoBook Journal|language=en|access-date=October 7, 2019}} 2016. With an essay by Jason Eskenazi. {{ISBN|978-0-9977219-0-4}}

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